New England Journal of Medicine

News about New England Journal of Medicine, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Chronology of Coverage

Mar. 19, 2015

Dr Terrie E Taylor study in The New England Journal of Medicine finds that child deaths from malaria often result from swelling of brain. MORE

Mar. 16, 2015

Researchers report in New England Journal of Medicine that experimental cholesterol drugs may sharply reduce risk of heart attacks and strokes according to preliminary evidence. MORE

Feb. 26, 2015

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study published in The New England Journal of Medicine finds deadly bacterial infection Clostridium difficile is estimated to have afflicted almost half a million Americans and caused 29,000 deaths in 2011. MORE

Feb. 26, 2015

Study in The New England Journal of Medicine says parents and doctors should weigh how urgently surgery is needed for children younger than three years; cites increasing evidence that general anesthesia may impair brain development in babies and young children. MORE

Feb. 26, 2015

Dr Craig Spencer publishes essay in the New England Journal of Medicine describing his experience as New York's first and only Ebola patient; contends that he was falsely accused of putting the public at risk and was subject to political and media gamesmanship after being hospitalized. MORE

Feb. 23, 2015

The finding, in The New England Journal of Medicine, addresses a condition that afflicts 2 percent of American children. MORE

Feb. 19, 2015

Study published in New England Journal of Medicine finds that drugs Eylea, Lucentis and Avastin are equally effective as treatments for form of vision loss caused by diabetes, although prices for drugs range from $50 to $1,950 per dose; study comes at time of concern over costs of pharmaceuticals. MORE

Feb. 15, 2015

Editorial highlights study published in New England Journal of Medicine finding that smoking is even more harmful to health than previously thought; calls on government to expand efforts to help smokers quit, particularly state governments in the United States through programs like Medicaid. MORE

Feb. 12, 2015

Study in The New England Journal of Medicine suggests at least five diseases and 60,000 annual deaths should be linked to tobacco in United States; smoking is already tied to nearly half a million US deaths a year from 21 diseases including 12 forms of cancer. MORE

Dec. 18, 2014

Study published in New England Journal of Medicine demonstrates efficacy of new treatment in patients who have suffered most severe kind of stroke. MORE

Dec. 7, 2014

Research published online by New England Journal of Medicine Researchers finds that drugs that free body’s immune system to fight cancer, known as PD-1 inhibitors, have shown strong preliminary results in treating Hodgkin’s lymphoma, shrinking tumors in well over half of patients who have exhausted many other treatment options. MORE

Nov. 19, 2014

Three-year study published in The New England Journal of Medicine reveals that blood pressure drug found to block the effects of a gene mutation that causes Marfan syndrome, condition that leads to heart problems, is no more effective than standard treatment. MORE

Nov. 6, 2014

Study published in New England Journal of Medicine points to overdiagnosis of thyroid cancer in South Korea; finds that number of diagnoses escalated as screening became popular, and newly detected cancers were almost all very tiny ones. MORE

Nov. 6, 2014

Op-Ed article by Dartmouth professor of medicine H Gilbert Welch on findings published in New England Journal of Medicine that there is an epidemic of overdiagnosis of thyroid cancer in South Korea; asserts that having doctors not look too hard for early cancer is in one's interest. MORE

Oct. 16, 2014

Study published in The New England Journal of Medicine reports that experimental therapy involving genetically programmed T-cells has brought remissions to high proportion of patients who were facing death from advanced leukemia after standard treatments had failed. MORE

Oct. 9, 2014

National Cancer Institute study published in The New England Journal of Medicine describes efforts to understand exceptional responders, or people who defy expectations by responding dramatically to drug treatment administered as last-ditch effort to treat seemingly incurable cancers; genetics may be at root of many such cases. MORE

Oct. 2, 2014

Study in New England Journal of Medicine examines results of program in St Louis that counseled teenage girls and provided them with free contraception, including long-acting methods like intrauterine devices and hormonal implants; relates that girls who participated in program had less than a quarter of the annual pregnancy, birth and abortion rates of teenage girls nationally. MORE

Sep. 23, 2014

World Health Organization publishes figures in New England Journal of Medicine that reveal far worse outlook than it had previously anticipated for Ebola epidemic in West Africa; report raises for first time possibility that epidemic will not be brought under control and that the disease will become endemic in the region. MORE

Sep. 3, 2014

A high-dose vaccine prevents older adults from catching the flu more effectively than the standard vaccine, researchers say. MORE

Aug. 31, 2014

Research published in The New England Journal of Medicine finds that new experimental drug has shown striking efficacy in prolonging lives of people with heart failure; developed by Novartis and known by code name LCZ696, drug could replace longstanding treatment for a condition that is the leading cause of hospitalization in United States and Europe. MORE

Aug. 26, 2014

The Upshot column; studies published in New England Journal of Medicine confirm old cliche that moderation is one's best bet in health, and that applies to sometimes extreme recommendations of doctors; cites low salt diets. MORE

Aug. 24, 2014

Editorial notes that conflicting studies published in The New England Journal of Medicine have brought new evidence to bear on debate over reducing amount of salt in the American diet; points out one issue now is whether a diet too low in sodium can lead to negative health effects. MORE

Aug. 10, 2014

Report published in New England Journal of Medicine traces origin of Ebola outbreak in western Africa to Gueckedou, Guinea, where 2-year-old boy died on Dec 6, 2013, of symptoms similar to the disease; eight months later, with 1,779 cases in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, including 961 deaths, and a small cluster in Nigeria, outbreak is out of control and is getting worse; epidemiologists predict it will take many months to control, and World Health Organization spokesman says thousands more health workers are needed to fight it. MORE

Aug. 7, 2014

Study in the New England Journal of Medicine finds that mutations in a gene called PALB2 raise the risk of breast cancer in women by almost as much as mutations in BRCA1 and BRCA2, genes that have long been implicated in most inherited cases of the disease. MORE

Aug. 5, 2014

Dr Nick Baylor study in The New England Journal of Medicine shows that parasite that causes most deadly form of malaria is becoming resistant to artemisinin, most effective drug used to treat it, adding urgency to effort to develop alternative treatments. MORE

Jul. 10, 2014

Papers published in New England Journal of Medicine find that new drugs that block highly specific parts of immune system are showing promise in treating eczema and psoriasis. MORE

Jul. 3, 2014

Study published in The New England Journal of Medicine finds steroid injections for spinal stenosis, widely used method of treating common cause of back and leg pain, may provide little benefit for many patients; steroid injections are often tried when physical therapy or anti-inflammatory medication fails, with the aim of avoiding expensive surgery; some insurance companies require injections before approving surgery. MORE

Jun. 19, 2014

Two studies independently identify mutations in a single gene that protect against heart attacks by keeping levels of triglycerides, confirmed as a cause of heart disease, very low for a lifetime; discovery, published in The New England Journal of Medicine, prompts hopes for a new class of drugs to fight heart disease. MORE

Jun. 16, 2014

Researchers report that portable artificial pancreas built with modified iPhone successfully regulated blood sugar levels in trial with people who have Type 1 diabetes; artificial pancreas is latest version of device that researchers have been refining for several years; findings appear in New England Journal of Medicine. MORE

Jun. 5, 2014

Researchers at University of California, San Francisco, use DNA sequencing to pinpoint, within 48 hours, what had been causing 14-year-old Joshua Osborn's brain to swell for weeks; breakthrough holds great promise for diagnostics, but experts say it will be years before method is in widespread use; case is reported in the New England Journal of Medicine. MORE

Jun. 5, 2014

Duke University researchers, in study published in The New England Journal of Medicine, say single infusion of antibiotic oritavancin can clear serious bacterial skin infections, including methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, just as effectively as 10-day regimen now used to treat patients. MORE

Apr. 17, 2014

Study published in The New England Journal of Medicine reports that rates of heart attacks, strokes, kidney failure and amputations among diabetics have dropped by more than 60 percent from 1990 to 2010; attributes declines to better screening, medicines and care. MORE

Mar. 30, 2014

Study in The New England Journal of Medicine finds that renal denervation, treatment approved in more than 80 countries. is ineffective in treating severe high blood pressure. MORE

Mar. 20, 2014

Correspondence published in the New England Journal of Medicine indicates that some widely used over-the-counter cold and flu medicines may be exposing patients to unexpectedly high amounts of decongestant phenylephrine; statement, put forward by AFT Pharmaceuticals, reveals a lapse in regulations and could raise safety concerns; Food and Drug Administration plays down findings. MORE

Mar. 6, 2014

Pilot study appearing in The New England Journal of Medicine suggests that it may be possible to genetically alter people's cells to make them resist the virus that causes AIDS. MORE

Feb. 27, 2014

Regulators in United States and Europe, in joint paper in The New England Journal of Medicine, say their own research and reviews of study data on some of world's most popular diabetes drugs indicates little cause for concern; some researchers said drugs could cause pancreatic inflammation. MORE

Feb. 7, 2014

Medical journals The Lancet and The New England Journal of Medicine publish case studies of puzzling ailment whose symptoms include a weakened heart and possible heart failure; Lancet study reports doctor arrived at correct diagnosis of cobalt poisoning from artificial hip after watching episode of television show House that described similar sickness. MORE

Jan. 30, 2014

Study published in The New England Journal of Medicine shows that obesity gains its hold in a child's early years; research involving more than 7,000 children finds that a third of those who were overweight in kindergarten were obese by eighth grade, and almost every child who was very obese remained that way; findings may reshape approaches to combating the nation's obesity epidemic. MORE

Jan. 9, 2014

Scientists in Ontario use bits of human intestine stored in a Philadelphia medical museum to map a cholera strain linked to 19th-century pandemics; study appears in New England Journal of Medicine. MORE

Dec. 26, 2013

Study in New England Journal of Medicine suggests that thousands of people with common knee problem, a torn meniscus, may be undergoing unnecessary arthroscopic surgery; finds that for many, options like physical therapy may be as helpful. MORE

Nov. 28, 2013

Study on The New England Journal of Medicine Web site finds patients with Thoratec Corp's HeartMate II, implant used to treat advanced heart failure, are suffering clots at nearly four times the rate they used to; increase is likely to raise questions about whether Thoratec modified device, either intentionally or accidentally. MORE

Nov. 27, 2013

The estimate of prevented diseases, published in an article in The New England Journal of Medicine, is an analysis of some of the data in a broad project to digitize disease report records going back to 1888. MORE

Nov. 10, 2013

Sendhil Mullainathan Economic View column discusses nation's weight problem from his point of view as a behavioral economist; says behavior as well as biology are co-villains behind obesity's rise; cites studies appearing in Science, Proceedings of the Royal Society, and New England Journal of Medicine. MORE

Sep. 20, 2013

Study appearing in The New England Journal of Medicine provides best evidence yet that wearing back brace will slow progression of most common form of scoliosis in adolescents, helping them avoid painful spine surgery; physicians have recommended bracing to treat scoliosis in adolescents for more than 50 years, but until now, research on its effectiveness had produced mixed results. MORE

Sep. 12, 2013

Research published in New England Journal of Medicine finds that female sex hormone estrogen plays much larger role in aging male body than previously thought; doctors say findings could reinvigorate study of how men's bodies change over time, including explanation for expanding waistlines as they get older. MORE

Sep. 9, 2013

Speed may not be the only important measure in saving victims of heart attacks, a new study shows. MORE

Aug. 14, 2013

A new study raises more questions about whether men should use a baldness drug to prevent prostate cancer. MORE

Jul. 26, 2013

Many new techniques and medicines are either no more effective than the old ones, or worse, and many doctors persist in using practices that have been shown to be useless or harmful, a new analysis shows. MORE

Jul. 17, 2013

A new radiation therapy can extend the lives of men with the most advanced form of prostate cancer, a large new study found. MORE

Jun. 20, 2013

Detailed investigation of MERS viral illness, first detected in Saudi Arabia in 2012, reveals chilling ease with which virus can spread to ill patients in hospital; international team found that a person can get sick 5.2 days after being exposed to virus, which has infected 64 people in 38 countries; report is published in New England Journal of Medicine. MORE

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